From: Marcel M. Cary <marcel@oak.homeunix.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:38:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Remove leading/trailing whitespace from commit messages when importing from Subversion?
Message-ID: <49B5FCD3.8060707@oak.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <49B5DB01.8080206@gmail.com>

Mike Swanson wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible to removing leading and trailing
> whitespace (tabs, newlines, spaces) from commit messages when importing
> from Subversion via git-svn.
> 
> I've got a repository with tens of thousands of commits, and not all of
> the messages are entered... sanely.  I need to know whether it is
> possible to clean these up when transfering the repository to Git.

Try "git filter-branch --msg-filter your-filter-command".

Marcel